TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - ministers
KW - Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - attorneys
KW - labor strikes
KW - immigrants
KW - World War I
KW - Irish Americans
KW - coke industry
KW - nickelodeons
KW - farms
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - steel industry
KW - Protestants
KW - coal industry
AU - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
AB - Follows Alex MacTay, a Scottish immigrant, who suppresses his love of art and literature to build wealth, like his hero Andrew Carnegie.
C1 - 1890s-1910s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; East Liberty; Millvale; Homestead; Beaver County; Beaver Falls; Cambria County; Fayette County; Connellsville; Uniontown; Indiana County; Blairsville; Westmoreland County; Greensburg; Delmont
C4 - Saga; Literary; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Follows Alex MacTay, a Scottish immigrant, who suppresses his love of art and literature to build wealth, like his hero Andrew Carnegie.
PB - The Macmillan Company
PP - New York
PY - 1938
RN - The author was born Agnes Sligh (1888-1982) in New Alexandria, Westmoreland County to a Scottish immigrant and his Scottish-American wife. She attended the village school and in 1910 graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana Normal School. She taught high school until 1918 when she married an Englishman, James Lyall Turnbull. The couple left Western Pennsylvania in 1922 for Maplewood, New Jersey, where Agnes lived for 60 years as a fiction writer. She is buried in New Alexandria.
EP - 468 p.
TI - Remember the End
ER -